A top police spokesman has commented on the as yet unsolved death of a German tourist found on rocks at Koh Phi Phi. Pol Col Krissana Pattanacharoen said that national police chief Chakthip Chaijinda is being kept closely informed of developments. Full story: Thaivisa News Thaivisa / Daily News
The Songkhla Provincial Court has approved an arrest warrant for a 17-year-old girl accused of robbing her own house, assaulting her grandmother and letting her 22-year-old boyfriend rape her 12-year-old autistic sister. The 12-year-old girl was rushed to a hospital on Aug 20 by relatives after her grandmother found her unconscious and exhausted, and with […]
Three Satun police officers who allegedly trespassed into Malaysian waters to arrest a Malaysian fishing trawler on Aug 19 have been temporarily discharged from official duties, pending an investigation, Deputy Prime Minister Prawit Wongsuwon said on Wednesday. The trio were apprehended by Malaysian marine police during the incident. They would be released and returned to […]
SURAT THANI: Police are waiting for a 22-year-old Portuguese woman who was hit on the head with a bottle and needed 20 stitches during the Koh Phangan full moon party on Sunday to come forward and lay charges against her assailant. Surat Thai police chief Apichart Boonsriroj said on Tuesday that no legal action could […]
More than 10,000 foreign tourists joined the popular Full Moon Party on Koh Pha-Ngan late Sunday night and the early hours of Monday under the watchful eye of security officials, the Pha-Ngan district chief said. Pha-Ngan district chief Krirkkrai Songthani dispatched 120 troops, police and Interior Ministry officials to the designated area on the island’s […]
KOH TAO — A regional police commander said Monday he has ordered investigators on the southern island of Koh Tao to look into reports that a British tourist was sexually assaulted there. While local police insist the alleged victim did not bring a rape complaint to them – an assertion disputed by her family – […]
NARATHIWAT: A 14-year-old boy was killed by a stray bullet in a gun attack in Rueso district early on Sunday. The man believed to be the actual target was injured, police said. The attack occurred at 2am at a grocery shop at Village Group 3 in tambon Suwari. Full story: Bangkok Post WAEDAO HARAI BANGKOK […]
KOH TAO — Police on Friday denied media reports that they refused to investigate a rape complaint filed by a British tourist on Koh Tao. While several media accounts say the 19-year-old backpacker tried to make a sexual assault report to police, an officer who said he met the woman said she only filed a […]
